Ummm....something needs to be done regarding the size of the left column with usernames and such in it and the length of allowed "location" text. idchafee's (first one I noticed) posts are all now fairly gigantic to give it enough space.

SNM wrote:Ummm....something needs to be done regarding the size of the left column with usernames and such in it and the length of allowed "location" text. idchafee's (first one I noticed) posts are all now fairly gigantic to give it enough space.

SNM wrote:Ummm....something needs to be done regarding the size of the left column with usernames and such in it and the length of allowed "location" text. idchafee's (first one I noticed) posts are all now fairly gigantic to give it enough space.

I think his posts in particular are going to be relatively "tall" due to the sig graphic...but even then, a post of more than 2 or 3 lines looks pretty normal to me.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

In any case, wider forums are coming. In fact, a wider site is coming. Check out the front page article Damage put up. Here's the money quote:

Damage wrote:We intend to add a wider version of our CSS templates, complete with a button like the blue switch, fairly soon.

Also, I should add that we will be moving to phpBB3 fairly soon. So this limits the amount of work that we want to do on old phpBB2 forum themes. Hopefully we can address major concerns with subSky and subSilver (the other theme is not supported).

That's the link that Kevin put in his message. Because hyper-links are now invisible in subSky, you have to wave your mouse pointer around to find the hidden links.

For phpBB 3.0, I've been satisfied with the AquaGlass theme that we're using at http://www.trgw.com , except that the quote line is a low-contrast dark font on dark background that makes it hard to read who's being quoted.

Last edited by JustAnEngineer on Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Thanks for finding these issues. They'll be addressed and hopefully fixed very soon... just not tonight.

The team is still watching everything carefully and fixing several small problems. Continue to post anything else you notice that isn't working.

Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations-these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. -C.S. Lewis

gratuitous wrote:And I asked, correct me if I'm mistaken, but the front page font has gotten smaller, too. My old tired eyes are having a hell of a time reading it. Don't suppose this can be re-sized?

Yes, the site is using smaller fonts. This is probably related to the attempt to cram three columns of text into a fixed width less than 1000 pixels wide. You can compensate for the problem in FireFox by holding down the ctrl key and rolling your center mouse wheel. In Internet Explorer, font size is a menu option.

At least you can still re-size fonts on TR. When ESPN went to their skinny fixed width format several years ago, they also set the font sizes so that they could not be increased by your browser. I quit visiting that site because of it.